Pendleton Community Library

I have spent many an hour in the Pendleton Library doing family genealogy research and borrowing their computers to print labels and make copies of pertinent information. I am not able to check anything out because I don’t live in the area. For such a small library they have quite a few books in the room that caters to genealogy and lots of old newspapers on file so I found a lot of interesting information about the area and more specifically about my relatives. I was able to trace my family back five generations and found ancestors buried in several cemeteries in the area. I look forward to coming back to the library when I travel back to Indiana again.
Note: Unless it’s changed, they charged $ 3 to use their computers compared to the Anderson Library which was free.
My only disappointment with them is that in 2007 when my mother passed away I decided to make $ 100 donation to the library in her name because she was always such an avid reader and probably taught me my love of reading and this was her hometown. When I sent the check I specifically asked them to send me an acknowledgement that they had received it but I never received anything. When I was there in person I asked them if they had any way of checking that they received the money which would have been about a year earlier and they were able to check that and verify that it was received. I had found a thank you letter in my mother’s papers for a check she had sent to them after my uncle, her brother, passed away and that was what gave me the idea of making the donation in her name. It just would have been nice to have that acknowledgement.